Gustavo Caetano

The industry keeps the wrong failure model for its worst people.

How thousands of sensible decisions quietly turn an exceptional employee into a load-bearing one, and why becoming indispensable is the surest way to never get promoted.

Or, the Quiet Horror of a Thousand Geniuses Generating Legacy Code in a Vacuum.

AI increased output.

On building something the baseline cannot replicate.

Or What Remains After Syntax Becomes Cheap.

An exploration of how technical leadership emerges without formal authority, and why clarity, influence, and the willingness to absorb ambiguity matter more than titles when systems need direction.

A long, spiraling essay about perception, misperception, and the quiet horror of being misunderstood at work, with a few useful truths buried inside.

A deep, reflective exploration of how PostgreSQL and MySQL, though united by SQL, embody radically different philosophies of data, time, and integrity—revealing that every schema is a choice, every query a confession, and every index a window into the dat…

A reflection on how AI is transforming software engineering by handling routine tasks, allowing developers to focus on higher-level system thinking and architectural decisions.

An obsessively detailed examination of the recursive anxieties, bureaucratic storytelling, and faintly sacred possibilities of professional advancement in late-stage capitalism, with footnotes.

Explore the obsessive, late-night cognitive experience of engineers transitioning from fragile monolithic databases to resilient distributed systems.

A reflection on how AI is transforming software engineering by handling routine tasks, allowing developers to focus on higher-level system thinking and architectural decisions.

A deep dive into why technical excellence alone isn't enough in software engineering, and how understanding human problems is the key to building systems that last.

The inevitable result of an industry where "it works" gets conflated with "it will last," or worse, "it is safe."

My story of how I was laid off and got six new job offers in a month.

Passing knowledge through time in software engineering is a necessary skill that can be achieved through methods such as documentation, code best practices, linters, and project management software, to build robust and scalable software systems.

Tips on how to get a better DEV job as a developing country developer, avoiding the common pitfalls and mistakes that most developers make when applying for jobs.